#life

Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#damaged #lifestyle

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#important #life #life and death #suffer #them

If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#dream #friendly #fulfilled #impossible #life

I love life too much to be bitter. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#i #i love #life #love #love life

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#baby boomers #bad #bad guys #big #boomers

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#aging #body #changing #however #i

...madaming teacher sa labas ng eskwelahan. desisyon mo kung kanino ka magpapaturo. ↗

— Bob Ong

#learning #life #education

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#distorted #distorts #essential #forms #life

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#drained #into #life #living #much

It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people, and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in times of war and famine shouldn't make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#personal-quote #life